Former Fleet Street Newspaper Editor Publishes Memoir

Roy Greenslade raves about Mike Molloy's stroll down an ink-stained memory lane.

TheHappyHackCoverHere’s a potential book jacket quote that is both thrilling and bittersweet: “Chock full of laugh-out-loud moments about a world that no modern journalist staring at a computer screen could possibly recognize.”

It comes from today’s review in The Guardian by Roy Greenslade of The Happy Hack, a new memoir about the glory days of Fleet Street written by Mike Molloy. The author, after ascending to the position of editor of the Daily Mirror at age 34 and being promoted to the position of group editor in chief ten years later, left the newspaper in 1990.

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